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Missy Bevers Murder Probe - New Person of Interest · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: In the early morning hours of April eighteen. Beaver's a
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  Speaker 1: fitness instructor, a mom and wife, showed up at this
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  Speaker 1: church to teach a class. Police says she was killed
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  Speaker 1: by puncture wounds to the head and chest. This is
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  Speaker 1: crime stories with Nancy Grace. This person intended to do
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they did, when they did it, and whom
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  Speaker 1: they did it too. The former Murphy police chief says,
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  Speaker 1: the circle of people who may know what happened is
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  Speaker 1: likely very small. There has to be some line between
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  Speaker 1: her death and people in her past. Investigators have poured
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  Speaker 1: over Beaver's Internet history and executed multiple warrants, but say
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  Speaker 1: today the I D on this suspect will come from
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  Speaker 1: a tip they still haven't received. This is what I
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  Speaker 1: do not understand. He's got a beautiful mother who takes
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  Speaker 1: care of her children to scare of the home the husband.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that she works outside the home, she's a
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  Speaker 1: fitness pro. Gets up four am. She's already at the
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  Speaker 1: church in mid Lothian to get ready to teach a
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  Speaker 1: gladiator style workout class for other mothers that are going
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  Speaker 1: to work in and out of the home before they
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  Speaker 1: go to work. They're all converging around five am. She's
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  Speaker 1: there before four and she's bludgeoned dead in Midlothian, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It's a town of about four hundred people. I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: at a four hundred people, we can't find the killer.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, the killer is caught on tape,
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  Speaker 1: caught on video. True, the killer decides to disguise themselves
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  Speaker 1: in a swat outfit, head to toe black. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like a motorcycle helmet he's wearing. You know, by now
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Missy Beavers. She was bludgeoned dead April eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. Where's the killer joining me right now?
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  Speaker 1: Alan Duke, Alan, there are some major developments in the case,
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  Speaker 1: but police are keeping it very very quiet. What's happening, Well,
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  Speaker 1: they silence fell on investigators and the family around mid October,
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  Speaker 1: and what I've been able to find out talking to
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  Speaker 1: people who are close to the case is there is
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  Speaker 1: a new person of interest that has risen on their radar.
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  Speaker 1: Not a suspect, but a person of interest who is
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  Speaker 1: connected formally connected to law enforcement, and that has put
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  Speaker 1: a chill through the investigation. You know, what's so incredible
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  Speaker 1: is that this is not out there. Everyone doesn't know.
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  Speaker 1: We knew about the vehicle of interest that emerged, which
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  Speaker 1: is an Ultima and Nisan Ultima, and that's the whole
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  Speaker 1: story in itself. But this person of interest that is emerging,
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  Speaker 1: I believe is a man. Although they're not saying and
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  Speaker 1: you have confirmed this with two sources, right, it is
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  Speaker 1: someone who is from that area. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: name it. This person although we have checked them out
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  Speaker 1: to something, we're not investigators and we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: publicly name them though. So it is a man that
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  Speaker 1: is former law enforcement. Now, see that explains a lot,
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  Speaker 1: because who decides to disguise themselves in a complete swat outfit?
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  Speaker 1: Now there are a few, uh inconsistencies that were not
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  Speaker 1: exactly swat, But who would think of that. I mean
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  Speaker 1: when I think of, oh, I'm gonna hide my face,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't think of swat gear. To me, that was
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  Speaker 1: indicative at the time as to who the killer was.
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  Speaker 1: Now we see the killer on video, We've got it
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  Speaker 1: up on crime online dot Com. Clearly the killer is
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  Speaker 1: just waiting passing time until he can kill Missy Beavers.
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  Speaker 1: This is targeted. This was not a break in, nothing
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  Speaker 1: was taken at all. He came there to kill her.
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  Speaker 1: Why would a former law enforcement officer kill Missy Beavers? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Had they had any kind of contact online? Alan? Do
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  Speaker 1: I do know? We know this from search warrants his
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  Speaker 1: public information. Missy Beavers shortly before her death had some
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  Speaker 1: interesting exchanges through LinkedIn the really the business social network,
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  Speaker 1: sortatious and personal kind of messages She sent to a man,
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  Speaker 1: a man who uh said her what were described as
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  Speaker 1: creepy and strange. A screepy and strange message just three
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  Speaker 1: days I think before she was dead, and her friend
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  Speaker 1: who she shared it with said she didn't know who
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  Speaker 1: this guy was. Whether that led to this person of
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  Speaker 1: interest or not, I don't know. We're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: young mom and seemingly happily Mayor that weekend, the husband
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  Speaker 1: went on a long planned fishing trip. I believe he
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  Speaker 1: goes on it every year. He was out of town. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: She had been out of town and kind of a
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  Speaker 1: workout sports enthusiast expo in Austin just before this happened
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  Speaker 1: without her husband. My question is it's amazing to me
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  Speaker 1: that the killer of Missy Beavers at that time of
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  Speaker 1: the morning has not been traced. I mean, I would
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  Speaker 1: have thought there had been a cellphone tower data dump
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  Speaker 1: shows every cell phone used at that time. That tells
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  Speaker 1: me and somebody slick enough to know to cut off
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  Speaker 1: their cell phone before they go to the area. There
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  Speaker 1: was a warrant executed to get a data dump of
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone powers. However, it's specifically targeted, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got the document specifically targeted what they called target numbers,
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  Speaker 1: which include Missy Brandon Beavers, the husband, and it also
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  Speaker 1: included or other people, two couples who were related in
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  Speaker 1: the fitness industry, and also included her in laws. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there were seven people identified. But what I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about the warrant for specific cell phones. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: what we just said, a data dump. You get every
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  Speaker 1: phone that is used in the around a certain cellphone
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  Speaker 1: tower within a certain period of time. I mean, Alan,
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  Speaker 1: how many people could be there in that area at
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock in the morning, the people driving on that highway, truckers,
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. There was some traffic we've seen
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  Speaker 1: from surveillance video that we just recently obtained that we've
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  Speaker 1: got on site, that there is some traffic going down
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  Speaker 1: that Highway around that time. You know, if the person
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  Speaker 1: of interest is former law enforcement, that would really explain
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  Speaker 1: a lot A. The cell phone being turned off, b,
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  Speaker 1: no fingerprints, see wearing gloves, D. Not using a gun
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  Speaker 1: that could be traced by back by the markings on
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  Speaker 1: the bullet, no weapon left behind, and completely obscuring the face.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was somebody that was there waiting on her. Alan.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how how clever this person was. The tools that
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  Speaker 1: were used to kill her apparently were tools that were
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  Speaker 1: already in the church. Didn't even bring the murder weapon
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  Speaker 1: with him or used what was there, So does that
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  Speaker 1: mean they already knew what was there before they came.
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  Speaker 1: One possibility is this was just some kind of stupid
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  Speaker 1: guy breaking into the church and came upon her and
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  Speaker 1: decided to kill her. Or it could be somebody who
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  Speaker 1: knew her. And of course I know you're leaning to
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  Speaker 1: plan B there. I mean, but Allen, examine it. What's
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  Speaker 1: the likelihood that somebody breaks into mid Lothan Church of
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  Speaker 1: Christ that day at four o'clock in the morning, exactly
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  Speaker 1: when Missy Beavers is going to come. If they were stealing,
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  Speaker 1: where's their car to hide loot in? What about don't
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  Speaker 1: dress up a costume for a for robbery at the
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  Speaker 1: no I mean, and also what about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: when they duck into the room where Missy Beavers is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the camera ever catches them leaving. No,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't. What happens is that this guy is in there,
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  Speaker 1: this person is in there walking around, and we see
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  Speaker 1: them strolling in this video that we have online, banging
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  Speaker 1: on doors, opening doors, crashing through windows, that kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing with the hammer. What we're told is this person
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  Speaker 1: was in there well before Missy arrived. Missy walks through
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  Speaker 1: the front door at about four twenty and is immediately bludgeoned.
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  Speaker 1: That it wasn't that long that she was there that
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  Speaker 1: this happened. So all of this happened probably forty minutes before,
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes before she was found by one of
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  Speaker 1: her students. It would make sense to me, Ellen that
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  Speaker 1: if you were breaking into a church to steal something,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to get the microphone? What? There's
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  Speaker 1: not any money there, there's nothing to take. And if
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  Speaker 1: somebody comes in on you and your your face is covered,
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  Speaker 1: why not just run? Why murder the person? That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense to me. You're right that that theory of
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  Speaker 1: just being bond bad if you will is pretty weak.
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  Speaker 1: And plus that they have been there forty five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: they still hadn't taken anything. There's so much evidence that
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  Speaker 1: we have and so many, so many theories here. It's
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  Speaker 1: just amazing nine months later that we're now getting to
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  Speaker 1: this person of interest. Let's get back to the person
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  Speaker 1: of interest. Now. I know we're not revealing any sources,
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  Speaker 1: but where you got the info that there is a
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  Speaker 1: person of interest, a former law enforcement is now considered
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  Speaker 1: is being considered in the murder of Missy Beavers. You
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  Speaker 1: had to get to family or cops. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of requests to family and cops to
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  Speaker 1: talk with us on this podcast. What I found out
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  Speaker 1: was the law enforcement has asked the family to be
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  Speaker 1: quiet because recently, as early November, there was a sister
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  Speaker 1: in law who gave a local television interview. The various
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  Speaker 1: relatives and the police were talking. But sometime in October
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  Speaker 1: the police stopped talking. And there are some interesting reasons
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  Speaker 1: for them not to talk. Now. You know, another thing
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  Speaker 1: that we had discussed is that some of these sources
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  Speaker 1: have told you that they are living in fear, including
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  Speaker 1: some law enforcement sources. They're afraid of this guy. Here's
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  Speaker 1: this very apparently clever killer, heartless killer who did this
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  Speaker 1: to this woman, and he or she is still walking
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  Speaker 1: around free, likely or possibly in the community with access
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  Speaker 1: to their homes. If this person wants to break in,
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  Speaker 1: I would be I would certainly be concerned. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not a big community. When you discovered that some of
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  Speaker 1: the family members and some law enforcement in and Lothian
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  Speaker 1: are actually living in fear, why what are they afraid
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  Speaker 1: of They're afraid that this guy or woman could strike again. Well,
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  Speaker 1: another thing alan is the closer and closer they get
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  Speaker 1: to the killer, the more dangerous it becomes, because if
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  Speaker 1: the killer realizes that they're onto him, it becomes more
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  Speaker 1: and more critical that he not be coughed. So he
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  Speaker 1: will get more and more anxious and feel more and
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  Speaker 1: more cornered. And when you corner something it by I
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  Speaker 1: was told by someone at one point recently they thought
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  Speaker 1: they were close to making an arrespite. Quote didn't hand out.
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  Speaker 1: That's how close they thought they were recently. I get
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  Speaker 1: the feeling talking to people that there's so much silence
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  Speaker 1: that behind that silence is a river running deep. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that makes us something. Soon, let's talk about the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: There is a gun shop about a half a mile
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  Speaker 1: away from the church as the crow flies and that night,
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  Speaker 1: the night that Missy is murdered in the in the church,
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  Speaker 1: Midlothian Church, and Nissan Ultima pulls into the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: of this gun store. It's flashing its lights. It cuts
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  Speaker 1: the lights off and later it cuts lights on and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't lead. Then it goes around to the back. Why.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if the killer parked his car a
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  Speaker 1: distance away because a car was not caught on the
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  Speaker 1: church video, and then walked to the church, which totally
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  Speaker 1: destroys the theory they're there to steal something. And keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind it was raining that night. We posted this
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  Speaker 1: this video online. You can see this is new video
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  Speaker 1: that was just made available. Law enforcement didn't release this.
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  Speaker 1: The gun store, the s w f A Outdoors store
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  Speaker 1: has posted this video. Originally, we first saw this car
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  Speaker 1: just Rainy screenshot at the rear bumper. They wanted us
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  Speaker 1: to see the rear of this two thousand ten or
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twelve Nissan Ultimate just if we could the
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  Speaker 1: public could identify it. But Now the whole video seven
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  Speaker 1: minutes or so are online, seventeen camera angles, really clear video,
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  Speaker 1: but you cannot see a tag. Oh Alan, I've tried
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  Speaker 1: and tried to read the tag. I can't read it.
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  Speaker 1: But I can tell you this much. If we've got
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  Speaker 1: satellites up in the sky that can monitor red lights,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to believe they cannot figure out
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  Speaker 1: what the tag is on this car. But maybe they
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  Speaker 1: have figured it out and it's not the killer. They
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this photo watch out for those cards a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: of interest. I think if they've cleared that car, they
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  Speaker 1: should let us know, but they're not. You know. Another
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  Speaker 1: issue here is so many people have commented on Missys
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon's marriage, and I don't think either you, nor me,
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  Speaker 1: or anyone listening to this podcast as ever not done
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  Speaker 1: something they wish they hadn't. And until an alleged affair
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  Speaker 1: can be tied into motive from murder, it's irrelevant. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you got to chase down anyone that was flirtatious, anyone
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  Speaker 1: that they may have dated during the marriage, and rule
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  Speaker 1: it out. But what do you think about a theory
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  Speaker 1: it was a woman. I'm not buying into that. I
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  Speaker 1: tend not to think it was about that extramarital affair
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  Speaker 1: that was alleged. This isn't a search warrant, This isn't
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  Speaker 1: an affidavit that was filed. This was when they wanted
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  Speaker 1: the telephone records from A T and T. They said
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  Speaker 1: that her records indicate they want to know if the
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  Speaker 1: records indicate and confirm statements and tips provided officers of
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing financial and marital struggle as well as intimate
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  Speaker 1: personal relationships external to marriage with identified target numbers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You throw an affair into a murder,
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  Speaker 1: and it looks damning to whoever that is not necessarily true.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a volatile situation. You've got
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  Speaker 1: the spouse, you've got friends, you've got relatives that could
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  Speaker 1: be embroiled in the whole scenario. It's not just the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of one person, but the breakthrough that there is
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  Speaker 1: a new person of interest that is former law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: and is a mail is a big breakthrough. Alan explain
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  Speaker 1: to me the term person of interest. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: reporting that and calling somebody that when I'd rather call
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  Speaker 1: them a suspect. What is the difference. Well, it's a
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  Speaker 1: technical it's a legal technicality, and I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: I think people do it. As soon as you are
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  Speaker 1: named a suspect, alan all a host of constitutional protections,
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  Speaker 1: then immediately settle on you. You are protected in so
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  Speaker 1: many ways by the Constitution. If you are a target,
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  Speaker 1: you are a suspect. If you're just a person of
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  Speaker 1: interest and you're not rising to the level of suspect,
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  Speaker 1: police can tell you. Of course, they can tell a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: They can question you. They can knock on your door
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  Speaker 1: and ask you questions without a lawyer being there. They
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  Speaker 1: can ask you to come down to the station and
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  Speaker 1: ask us questions. They can grab you and put in
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  Speaker 1: a lineup, all sorts of things if you are not
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  Speaker 1: a formal suspect. That's the difference right there. Here's something
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  Speaker 1: that's really been interesting as as I looked into what
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  Speaker 1: happened the night before or just the hours before. Other
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  Speaker 1: than this vehicle of interest, Missy Beavers was leading what
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  Speaker 1: she called the Camp Gladiator. It's a bootcamp style fitness
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  Speaker 1: class Sunday night. She posted on Facebook to her followers
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  Speaker 1: that they were going to have the class in the church,
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  Speaker 1: not normally in the church, but normally outside. But because
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  Speaker 1: of the rain. She said, no excuses your gladiators, if
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  Speaker 1: it's raining, we're still training. One might assume that whoever
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  Speaker 1: was there to meet her at the front door of
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  Speaker 1: the church at Fort's wait facebook post. You may assume that,
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  Speaker 1: of course the person could see that it's raining and
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  Speaker 1: they're just waiting for her to show he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be there inside the church for the training session.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that, But I don't think that's necessarily true.
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  Speaker 1: If they knew that she taught the class and that
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  Speaker 1: she would be teaching that morning, I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: is mandatory to prove the case that they were on
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  Speaker 1: her Facebook. They could have shown up an hour ahead,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for her to get there early to set up
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  Speaker 1: planning to kill her, whether it was inside, and that
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  Speaker 1: could be our vehicle of interest two hours exactly. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering how you get from that gun shop too,
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  Speaker 1: if you were going to walk to the Middle Lothian church.
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  Speaker 1: Was that the killer? Were they trying to find a
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  Speaker 1: place to part their car? Is that why they went
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  Speaker 1: around the back of the gun store. Did they notice
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  Speaker 1: the cameras and go, hey, this isn't gonna work, and
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  Speaker 1: they leave and go find another place to hide their car.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Did they google search how to
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  Speaker 1: get there? Probably didn't need to that. I doubt they
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  Speaker 1: would have walked down a thoroughfare to get there. I
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  Speaker 1: think they would have gone part the car and walked
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  Speaker 1: through the woods to get there. There's a lot of standing.
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  Speaker 1: There are several stands of trees around the church where
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  Speaker 1: they could have easily hidden out waiting for her. But
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  Speaker 1: of course they got there early. They got there before her.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I want to know. When did they
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  Speaker 1: change into that Halloween costume? I mean, did they drive
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  Speaker 1: to it to to the scene in it or did
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  Speaker 1: they put it on there? There's three minutes when we
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  Speaker 1: see this car, this vehicle of interest on video. Something's
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  Speaker 1: happening in the car. They're sitting there. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they're waiting or not doing anything. But what were
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  Speaker 1: they doing at that time? If that was in fact
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  Speaker 1: the killer's vehicle? But when when did they put this on?
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  Speaker 1: It baffles me. It was a rainy night in Texas
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  Speaker 1: and there are no footprints in the mud. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: can't guarantee you they didn't put that that motorcycle helmet
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  Speaker 1: on in the car because they probably couldn't have seen
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  Speaker 1: its tinted so I doubt they could see to drive.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine they were partially dressed in the outfit
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  Speaker 1: and put the rest on in the car. Guys were
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  Speaker 1: talking about the murder of a beloved mother, Missy Beaver's
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  Speaker 1: wife and mother who led a gladiator boot camp fitness
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  Speaker 1: class at the church there in Midlothian. The tip line
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  Speaker 1: nine seven two seven seven five seven six two four
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  Speaker 1: nine seven two nine three seven seven two nine seven.
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  Speaker 1: There is a reward for information in connection to the
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  Speaker 1: murderer of mid Lothian mom Missy Beavers. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. Goodbye friend.